Excerpt from The Poems and Songs of Susanna Hawkins, Vol. 5A Scorrlsn Ponrnss, highly fa voured with the patronage of your exalted name, humbly dedicates the following pages to your Ladyship. I was born near the famed up of Burnsw ark, where the brave Caledonians fought against the Romans. Twas there, when at an early period of life, tending my masters cattle, the Muse first inspired me with a wish to sing the praises of the great God, who favoured my country with the light of truth, a righteous King, and just laws likewise the beauties of nature, love, admira tion, and curiosity. She likewise whispemd in my ear to keep by the Protestant Faith - the Estab lished religion of the kingdom - to look around me, and Nature would tell me I had but one God to serve, and one faitb to believe.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works._,